For the past two decades, euthanasia/assisted-suicide ideologues have worked overtime to conflate palliative care the medical alleviation of pain and other distressing symptoms of serious illness¯with intentionally ending the life of the patient.

Palliative Care Australia recently sponsored a motion at the World Health Assembly earlier this month that was passed by the Executive and will now be recommended for adoption by the entire World Health Assembly when it meeting in May this year.

Surveys and studies continue to show us that people generally fear such issues as loss of autonomy and being a burden at the end-of-life. These matters, rather than pain concern the vast majority of people.